In 2010, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report listed 19 organizations with ongoing initiatives that influence cybersecurity and governance, including the International Telecommunication Union, the European Union, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the International Organization for Standardization, and the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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However, Nokia has sent a submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force saying it owns patents for innovations VP8 depends upon.

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He has also worked on Internet protocols and is a co-author of the Internet Engineering Task Force's MHTML standard for sending Web pages as e-mail.

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